Here's the Declassified Protocol for Reporting UFO Sightings

The U.S. Air Force protocol for UFO sightings from 1958 has finally been declassified. On Tuesday, a large collection of about 930,000 CIA documents were made available online, including a file on UFOs. This file gives us insight on what the steps Air Force would take if a UFO was spotted.

Officially, a UFO was defined as "any airborne object which, by performance, aerodynamic characteristics or unusual features, does not conform to known aircraft or missiles." So let's say it's 1958, and you're in the Air Force, and you spot a UFO zipping through the air. First thing's first - you'd report all information and evidence of the sighting to your commanding officer, who would forward it to necessary personnel.

Next, the Air Force would conduct a follow-up investigation on it. Then they would analyze the information and evidence from these sightings. Finally, they would release information on UFO sightings to the public and answer congressional inquiries about the UFO sighting.

When reporting a UFO sighting, one would have to describe the UFO's shape, size, color, number, formation, sound and other features, as well as the time, date, location and weather conditions of the sighting. If journalists, writers, publishers or private people release unofficial information about a UFO sighting, the protocol says "every effort will be made to assure that these statements and theories are not associated with or represented as official information."

There are many conspiracy theories flying around regarding UFOs and aliens and how the government has spent more than half a century covering up their sightings. For example, last summer, NASA shut down a live-stream of the International Space Station, and conspiracy theorists believed NASA was covering up an alien invasion.